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In hagiography: Barsai was a bishop of Ḥarran and then Edessa while Ephrem the Syrian lived in Edessa; he built the "Grand Baptistery" there.

Names

  • Barsai
  • BARSAÏ1
  • Barses

Floruit

361-378

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: Barsai was a bishop of Ḥarran and then Edessa while Ephrem the Syrian lived in Edessa; he built the "Grand Baptistery" there.The west Syriac martyrology of Rabban Ṣalība commemorates Barsaï on the 12 of January.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 77. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Robert Devreesse, Le Patriarcat d’Antioche Depuis La Paix de l’Église Jusqu’à La Conquête Arabe, Études Palestiniennes et Orientales (Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1945), p: 291. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: VIcol: col. 954entry: Barses. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Judah Benzion Segal, Edessa, ‘The Blessed City’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p: 88, 91, 104, 175, 188. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: IIp: 840-41. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Barsai” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1161.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Barsai.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1161.

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